Writing
Mesopotamia
Inventions
Hammurabi
100
Sumerian form of writing
What is cuneiform?
100
The two rivers Mesopotamia was located between
What is the Tigris and Euphrates
100
The sumerians developed a number system based on 60, we use this system in this timely device...
What is a clock? (watch)
100
His laws are called this...
What is the Code of Hammurabi
200
A long poem that tells the story of a hero.
What is an Epic? (bonus)
200
Farming was good because of this annual happening
What is the spring floods? (flooding)
200
This invention helps to carry people and goods from place to place.
What is the wheel?
200
If someone is caught in the act of robbery, what happens to him?
What is he is put to death?
300
The reason writing developed
What is to keep track of business deals (trading) (bonus)
300
The climate in this region
What is hot and dry?
300
This invention replaced muscle power with wind power.
What is the sail?
300
Hammurabi defeated all of these and created one large empire
What is city-states (bonus)
400
Scribe
What is a person who writes (bonus)
400
Dams and channels were built to control flooding. Waterways and ditches were built to bring water to the fields which is called...
What is Irrigation?
400
This invention made farming easier
What is the plow?
400
In Hammurabi's introduction, on page 24, why did he want to destroy the wicked and evil-doers...
What is so that the strong could not harm the weak?
500
"tablet house"
What is "edubba"
500
Because of the shape and good growing conditions of the area, Mesopotamia is called this...
What is the Fertile Crescent?
500
By recording the position of the planets and stars, the Sumerians developed....
What is the 12 month calendar?
500
From the biography on page 22, Hammurabi called himself this powerful name....
What is 'the Strong King of Babel"
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